Publicizing medical costs will help improve medical services as a whole, says a commentary of Dazhong Daily. An excerpt follows:

A hospital in Changsha, Hunan Province, has just announced it will publicize the costs of treating about 20 diseases, the first time in the country that a hospital has made its financial costs available to the public.

In recent years, complaints have mounted about the medical care system and hospitals. One of the reasons is that patients do not have any idea about the real costs of treatment, examinations and other medical services.